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• Comment: Exact sentences match in section Sustainability and Recent Initiatives. VortexPhantom🔥 (talk) 06:43, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

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Archetype Group

Trade name	Archetype Group
Type	Private
Industry	Construction
Founded	2002 (2002) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Headquarters	Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam
Area served	Asia; Europe; Middle East; Africa; Latin America
Services	Architecture & Master planning Industrial Engineering & Process Engineering Project & Construction management
Website	www.archetype-group.com

Archetype Group is a French-founded multidisciplinary construction consultancy established in 2002 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, by François Magnier and Pierre-Jean Malgouyres. The company provides services in architecture and master planning, building and infrastructure engineering, industrial and process engineering, and project and construction management.

Headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City, the firm operates across more than 20 countries on four continents.

Archetype Group was founded in 2002 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, by François Magnier and Pierre-Jean Malgouyres, who had backgrounds in French architecture and engineering. The firm was established to serve the growing construction market in Southeast Asia and expanded from its Vietnamese base into Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, and other regional markets during the 2000s.

By the 2010s, the firm had grown into a regionally significant consultancy operating across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe, employing more than 1,000 people across its international offices.¹

In 2025, Archetype Group received the “French-owned Companies Abroad” label, a private designation launched by the International Chamber of Commerce and the French Foreign Trade Advisors to recognise companies majority-owned by French nationals operating internationally.²

The firm provides construction consultancy services across four principal practice areas: architecture and master planning, building and infrastructure engineering, industrial and process engineering, and project and construction management. Its clients operate in the hospitality, real estate and industrial sectors.

• e.town 6 (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam): Developed by REE Corporation in Tan Binh district, e.town 6 is an office building spanning 79,779 square metres across 14 office floors. Archetype Group was responsible for architectural design, interior design, exterior and landscape design, and façade engineering. The project received LEED Platinum certification from the U.S. Green Building Council³ and was awarded the Gold Winner for Best Office Space Design at the VMARK Vietnam Design Award 2024.⁴

• King Power Mahanakhon (Bangkok, Thailand): Archetype Group was appointed as project and construction manager for this 77-storey mixed-use tower in Bangkok’s central business district. At the time of its completion in 2016, the tower was the tallest building in Thailand.⁵⁶

• Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor (Siem Reap, Cambodia): Archetype Group provided consultancy services on the renovation of this colonial-era hotel, recognised by international hospitality publications.⁷
• Ducati Factory and Showroom (Rayong, Thailand): Archetype Group provided design services for Ducati’s manufacturing and retail facility in the Amata City Industrial Estate in Rayong, Thailand.⁸
• National Assembly Administrative Building (Phnom Penh, Cambodia): Archetype Group was awarded the contract for the new administrative building of Cambodia’s National Assembly, as reported by EuroCham Cambodia and the Cambodia Investment Review.⁹¹⁰
• Zannier Hotels Bãi San Hô (Vietnam): Archetype Group contributed to the construction of this resort property in Vietnam.¹¹
• Diamond Inya Palace (Yangon, Myanmar): Archetype Group won the project and construction management contract for this high-rise development in Yangon.¹²

Archetype Group has received recognition through several industry rankings and awards.

The firm was ranked 65th globally in Building Design’s World Architecture Survey (WA100) 2025, which ranks practices by the number of fee-earning architects employed, recording 187 architects. The firm previously appeared in the 59th position in the 2024 survey.¹³ In 2025, Archetype Group ranked 165th in the Engineering News-Record (ENR) "Top 225 International Design Firms" list, which ranks companies by annual revenue from design work performed outside their home country.¹⁴

At the Hubexo Asia Awards 2025 — formerly known as the BCI Asia Awards — held in Ho Chi Minh City on 13 June 2025, Archetype Group received the inaugural Elite Award, presented to firms recognised ten or more times over the award’s 20-year history.¹⁵¹⁶